Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Book of John
Chapter 4  -  Read Chapter
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:7 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:7 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:7 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:7 JFB -> Commentary on 4:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:7 PNT -> Commentary on 4:7 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:7 TFG -> Commentary on 4:7 TSK -> Commentary on 4:7 TSK -> Entry for 4:7 WEN -> Notes on 4:7 NTB -> Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem TTT -> Human Nature of Christ, The; Wells; Woman EBD -> John, First Epistle of; Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:7 4:7 - [In Context] A Samaritan F59 woman came to that well to get some water. Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink of water."
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:8 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:8 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:8 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:8 JFB -> Commentary on 4:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:8 PNT -> Commentary on 4:8 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:8 TFG -> Commentary on 4:8 TSK -> Commentary on 4:8 TSK -> Entry for 4:8 WEN -> Notes on 4:8 NTB -> Hunger; Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem TTT -> Diet of the Jews, The; Wells EBD -> Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:8 4:8 - [In Context] (This happened while Jesus' followers went to town to buy some food.)
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:9 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:9 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:9 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:9 JFB -> Commentary on 4:9 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:9 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:9 PNT -> Commentary on 4:9 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:9 TFG -> Commentary on 4:9 TSK -> Commentary on 4:9 TSK -> Entry for 4:9 WEN -> Notes on 4:9 NTB -> Bigotry; Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem TTT -> Jews, The; Samaria, Modern EBD -> Eating; Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:9 4:9 - [In Context] The Samaritan F60 woman answered, "I am surprised that you ask me for a drink! You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman!" (Jews are not friends with Samaritans. F61 )
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:10 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:10 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:10 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:10 JFB -> Commentary on 4:10 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:10 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:10 PNT -> Commentary on 4:10 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:10 TFG -> Commentary on 4:10 TSK -> Commentary on 4:10 TSK -> Entry for 4:10 WEN -> Notes on 4:10 NTB -> Blindness; Gifts From God; Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Jesus, The Christ (continued); Prayer; Regeneration; Samaria; Shechem; Water TTT -> Gifts of God, The; Prayer, Answers to EBD -> Gift; John, First Epistle of; Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:10 4:10 - [In Context] Jesus answered, "You don't know about the thing God gives. And you don't know who I am that asked you for a drink. If you knew these things, you would have asked me and I would have given you living water."
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:11 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:11 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:11 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:11 JFB -> Commentary on 4:11 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:11 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:11 PNT -> Commentary on 4:11 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:11 TFG -> Commentary on 4:11 TSK -> Commentary on 4:11 TSK -> Entry for 4:11 WEN -> Notes on 4:11 NTB -> Blindness; Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem TTT -> Wells EBD -> Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well; Well UTM -> Devotional using 4:11 UTM -> Devotional using 4:11 WJD -> Devotional using 4:11 4:11 - [In Context] The woman said, "Sir, where will you get that living water? The well is very deep, and you have nothing to get water with.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:12 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:12 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:12 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:12 JFB -> Commentary on 4:12 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:12 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:12 PNT -> Commentary on 4:12 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:12 TFG -> Commentary on 4:12 TSK -> Commentary on 4:12 TSK -> Entry for 4:12 WEN -> Notes on 4:12 NTB -> Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem TTT -> Samaria, Modern EBD -> Samaritans SBD -> Captivities of the Jews; Jacob; Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:12 4:12 - [In Context] Are you greater than Jacob F62 our father F63 ? Jacob is the one that gave us this well. He drank from it himself. Also, his sons and all his animals drank water from this well."
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:13 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:13 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:13 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:13 JFB -> Commentary on 4:13 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:13 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:13 PNT -> Commentary on 4:13 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:13 TFG -> Commentary on 4:13 TSK -> Commentary on 4:13 TSK -> Entry for 4:13 WEN -> Notes on 4:13 NTB -> Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem EBD -> Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:13 4:13 - [In Context] Jesus answered, "Every person that drinks this water will be thirsty again.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:14 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:14 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:14 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:14 JFB -> Commentary on 4:14 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:14 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:14 PNT -> Commentary on 4:14 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:14 TFG -> Commentary on 4:14 TSK -> Commentary on 4:14 TSK -> Entry for 4:14 WEN -> Notes on 4:14 NTB -> Gospel; Holiness; Holy Spirit; Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Jesus, The Christ (continued); Life; Regeneration; Righteous; Salvation; Samaria; Shechem; Thirst; Water; Wells TTT -> Emblems of the Holy Spirit, The; Fountains and Springs; Life, Eternal; Prayer, Answers to; Wells EBD -> John, First Epistle of; Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well UTM -> Devotional using 4:14 SPG -> Devotional using 4:14 TV -> Devotional using 4:14 TV -> Devotional using 4:14 WJD -> Devotional using 4:14 4:14 - [In Context] But the person that drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. That water I give will become like a spring of water flowing inside that person. That water will bring that person life forever."
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:15 DSN -> Synopsis on 4:15 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:15 GSB -> Study Notes on 4:15 JFB -> Commentary on 4:15 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:15 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:15 PNT -> Commentary on 4:15 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:15 TFG -> Commentary on 4:15 TSK -> Commentary on 4:15 TSK -> Entry for 4:15 WEN -> Notes on 4:15 NTB -> Blindness; Jacob; Jesus, The Christ; Samaria; Shechem; Thirst EBD -> Samaritans SBD -> Jacobs Well WJD -> Devotional using 4:15 4:15 - [In Context] The woman said to Jesus, "Sir, give me this water. Then I will never be thirsty again. And I will not have to come back here to get more water."
FOOTNOTES: F59: Samaritan(s)   From Samaria. Samaritans were part Jewish, but some Jews did not accept them as pure Jews. F60: Samaritan(s)   From Samaria. Samaritans were part Jewish, but some Jews did not accept them as pure Jews. F61: Jews are not friends with Samaritans   Or, "Jews don't use things that Samaritans have used." F62: Jacob   Father of twelve sons from whom the twelve family groups of Israel descended. F63: father(s)   Important ancestors of the Jews, especially the leaders of the twelve Jewish family groups.

Abbreviations Legend: BCC - Burton Coffman; DSN - Darby's Synopsis; GEB - Gill's Exposition; GSB - Geneva Study Bible; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; PNT - People's New Testament; RWP - Robertson's Word Pictures; TFG - The Fourfold Gospel; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; TV - Today's Verse; WJD - What Jesus Did!; SPG - Spurgeon's Morning & Evening; UTM - My Utmost for His Highest; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version © 2001 by World Bible Translation Center, Inc. and used by permission.